LdubsRoot23 wrote:Says the Pens are a safe bet if McCabe doesn't go to Florida.

If this really happens, will somebody please bludgeon me to death with a soldering iron?

It's Ek, meaning the Penguins are the absolute last place McCabe would end up. The Pens don't even have cap space, and even without Whitney, there remain seven NHL defenseman and Goligoski (though I doubt he makes it).

Yeah I never understood the McCabe to the pens talk. It makes zero sense to me. The pens already have almost $10MM wrapped up in Gonchar and Whitney. I don't see them adding another offensive high priced D man. Even with the Whitney injury...

Bryan McCabe isn't terrible. He just isn't worth nearly what he makes. How, oh, how, dear Ek, would they fit his onerous salary under the cap? The Leafs would most certainly want a Whitney or Goligoski coming in return, and no way I trade either of them for McCabe. So forget about the bludgeoning. he ain't coming to the Burgh.

McCabe is overpaid and pretty horrid defensively...but it has gotten to the point that internet message boards actually underrate him now...which is weird for me to say, as I have always been one of his biggest detractors...but, it has been taken too far now, I feel...

KG wrote:Yeah I never understood the McCabe to the pens talk. It makes zero sense to me. The pens already have almost $10MM wrapped up in Gonchar and Whitney. I don't see them adding another offensive high priced D man. Even with the Whitney injury...

If Whitney's injury is 3-5 months from August, that would imply he could be back at the start of the season, right? Or at worst, December?

KG wrote:Yeah I never understood the McCabe to the pens talk. It makes zero sense to me. The pens already have almost $10MM wrapped up in Gonchar and Whitney. I don't see them adding another offensive high priced D man. Even with the Whitney injury...

If Whitney's injury is 3-5 months from August, that would imply he could be back at the start of the season, right? Or at worst, December?

Start of the season is early October. Surgery took place August 15. Three months would put Whitney at mid November (more than a month in), while five months would put Whitney at mid January (more than three months in).

KG wrote:Yeah I never understood the McCabe to the pens talk. It makes zero sense to me. The pens already have almost $10MM wrapped up in Gonchar and Whitney. I don't see them adding another offensive high priced D man. Even with the Whitney injury...

If Whitney's injury is 3-5 months from August, that would imply he could be back at the start of the season, right? Or at worst, December?

Start of the season is early October. Surgery took place August 15. Three months would put Whitney at mid November (more than a month in), while five months would put Whitney at mid January (more than three months in).

Still isn't to bad. He can be healthy and getting going in time for the playoffs.

KG wrote:Yeah I never understood the McCabe to the pens talk. It makes zero sense to me. The pens already have almost $10MM wrapped up in Gonchar and Whitney. I don't see them adding another offensive high priced D man. Even with the Whitney injury...

If Whitney's injury is 3-5 months from August, that would imply he could be back at the start of the season, right? Or at worst, December?

Start of the season is early October. Surgery took place August 15. Three months would put Whitney at mid November (more than a month in), while five months would put Whitney at mid January (more than three months in).

Still isn't to bad. He can be healthy and getting going in time for the playoffs.

Yeah, he should be back well before then. My target date is January 1.